NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX: New Architecture Exposed. Page 16

NVIDIA has unveiled its brand-new graphics processor and proclaimed it to be the fastest in the industry. Today we take a look at what the company has to offer in terms of acrhitecture, efficiency and power consumption.

Relief Rendering and Other Tests

The GeForce 7800 GTX is by far faster than the GeForce 6800 Ultra at rendering relief with the EMBM method, but is slower than the RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition. The only exception is 1600x1200 resolution where the new GPU from NVIDIA wins.

NVIDIA’s graphics processors have always been excellent at rendering relief with the Dot3 method, and the G70 is not an exception. It is faster than the previous-generation solutions in all resolutions.

The Ragtroll test is an indicator of the balance of the CPU-driver-GPU chain. It uses the physics engine Havok, version 1.1 vertex shaders, and version 1.4 pixel shaders. The graph of the GeForce 7800 GTX goes almost in parallel to the graph of the RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition, and both graphics cards look somewhat worse-balanced than the GeForce 6800 Ultra. As for the absolute fps rates, the GeForce 7800 GTX wins this test.